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Famous Photography Quotes

Post - processing

What role does post-processing have in photography? Here are some famous photography quotes on the subject that will come back to you next time you're busy in Photoshop!

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Ansel Adams

"Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an aesthetic surgeon !" Man Ray

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. Henri Cartier-Bresson

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must... intervene as little as possible, so as not… to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses. Henri Matisse

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. Henri Cartier-Bresson

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value... Ansel Adams

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop. Ansel Adams

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